Teufelaffe:thamike: Teufelaffe: Am I the only one who hates most title sequences and really likes it when a show's title sequence is just the title, like the first season of Grimm and the first couple of seasons of Castle?

Like every episode of Lost?

Never seen Lost. I've been warned away from it by friends who say the ending sucks so very very much that it's not worth watching. That I'll just end up depressed and wanting to cockpunch the writers until their balls shoot out their ass.

Don't eat that apple, eventually it'll be a core.

I recommend watching it. Especially now you won't have to wait a week between episode or longer between seasons.

Just pretend it got cancelled after 3 seasons and stop there./would have put GoT #1, but I've never seen True Blood, so I won't argue//Taxi would be up there on list of pre 'modern' title sequences

Teufelaffe:thamike: Teufelaffe: Am I the only one who hates most title sequences and really likes it when a show's title sequence is just the title, like the first season of Grimm and the first couple of seasons of Castle?

Like every episode of Lost?

Never seen Lost. I've been warned away from it by friends who say the ending sucks so very very much that it's not worth watching. That I'll just end up depressed and wanting to cockpunch the writers until their balls shoot out their ass.

You have good friends. They are 100% correct. I have 6 seasons of dvd's that I'll never ever watch again. Season 6 is still in the plastic wrap and will likely stay that way for eternity.

Not even BSG's ending tarnished my ability to rewatch that show like Lost did.

I kinda like The Office intro for your standard sitcom affair. There's nothing to it really, but I like that catchy little song they play and it's a nice short theme that gets you back to the show (or commercials) quickly.

Firefly's theme is great too. Used to have that song as my ringtone back in the day.

Spaced Cowboy:kinda like The Office intro for your standard sitcom affair. There's nothing to it really, but I like that catchy little song they play and it's a nice short theme that gets you back to the show (or commercials) quickly.

The greatest title sequence is for The Booth At the End. Literally just a black background with the title in white for a second without noise or effects. Somehow, though, I cannot find an image of just this, but you can imagine.

Also, a fan of Boardwalk Empire and the Colbert Report. Boardwalk gives you a great impression of era, themes, and the character Nucky with an interesting song in the background. Colbert Report is amusing with some new descriptions and the strange 360 rotation shot where he is simply staring at you, plus this isn't too long.

mcmnky:/would have put GoT #1, but I've never seen True Blood, so I won't argue

Mostly, True Blood's opening does a lot to establish that you will be watching a show that is set in Sisterfarkistan but with vampires and also copious amounts of titties. None of these are bad things but the show itself suffers for the fact that it manages to cram most of the most annoying (but naked) characters humanly possible into a single TV show.

likefunbutnot:mcmnky: /would have put GoT #1, but I've never seen True Blood, so I won't argue

Mostly, True Blood's opening does a lot to establish that you will be watching a show that is set in Sisterfarkistan but with vampires and also copious amounts of titties. None of these are bad things but the show itself suffers for the fact that it manages to cram most of the most annoying (but naked) characters humanly possible into a single TV show.

True Blood started suffering when they realized they had fans of particular characters and devolved into a gigantic fanservice handjob. Now every single minor character has to have some idiotic subplot going on or be shoehorned into the main plot even though they don't really serve a purpose there. The storytelling has gotten so bad that, personally, this last season killed any desire whatsoever for me to watch the next season.

The first season of American Horror Story had a good opening that fit the creepy mood well.Can't speak to the second season since I've been told by various sources that it is dogs hit & should be avoided.

Mad_Radhu:Are we watching the same show? I love the opening score. It always gets me nicely pumped up for a new hour of killing and farking.

It's very paint-by-numbers generic quasi-classical music with uninspired orchestration and, except for the opening theme, nothing remotely memorable or interesting. Compare GoT's scoring work to something like what McCreary did on the various Galactica properties, where the scoring from moment to moment probably involved established leitmotifs for whichever characters happen to be on screen at the time and some kind of major new musical theme introduced every couple episodes.

Speaking of "The Incredible Hulk" TV show....can you imagine what would happen if they re-made that show (lonely guy who wanders around, helping people out, and hulks up once just to through a bad guy through a window)? People would have fits. Even though I admit that the Ruffalo Hulk from Avengers sort of hints that that's what that version of Banner is like when he's not talking down flying military bases.

Anyway, I've found that both the BSG and MadMen intro to be wonderfully haunting. And the X-Files going further back.

But for exciting intros, you need to look back at cartoons. The 90's Xmen and 80's Thundercats both rocked. The Teen Titans intro was pretty great, and the original Justice League opening was nicely grand.

And 60's Johnny Quest. I could sit through watching that opening all day.

likefunbutnot:Mad_Radhu: Are we watching the same show? I love the opening score. It always gets me nicely pumped up for a new hour of killing and farking.

It's very paint-by-numbers generic quasi-classical music with uninspired orchestration and, except for the opening theme, nothing remotely memorable or interesting. Compare GoT's scoring work to something like what McCreary did on the various Galactica properties, where the scoring from moment to moment probably involved established leitmotifs for whichever characters happen to be on screen at the time and some kind of major new musical theme introduced every couple episodes.

This is the problem with snooty music nerds. It's never good enough for a piece of music to just be enjoyable.

mongbiohazard:likefunbutnot: mcmnky: /would have put GoT #1, but I've never seen True Blood, so I won't argue

Mostly, True Blood's opening does a lot to establish that you will be watching a show that is set in Sisterfarkistan but with vampires and also copious amounts of titties. None of these are bad things but the show itself suffers for the fact that it manages to cram most of the most annoying (but naked) characters humanly possible into a single TV show.

True Blood started suffering when they realized they had fans of particular characters and devolved into a gigantic fanservice handjob. Now every single minor character has to have some idiotic subplot going on or be shoehorned into the main plot even though they don't really serve a purpose there. The storytelling has gotten so bad that, personally, this last season killed any desire whatsoever for me to watch the next season.

I still have six episodes from the last season just sitting on my DVR. I have no interest in watching them. The last season was just too awful for me to watch the whole thing.

Teufelaffe:likefunbutnot: Mad_Radhu: Are we watching the same show? I love the opening score. It always gets me nicely pumped up for a new hour of killing and farking.

It's very paint-by-numbers generic quasi-classical music with uninspired orchestration and, except for the opening theme, nothing remotely memorable or interesting. Compare GoT's scoring work to something like what McCreary did on the various Galactica properties, where the scoring from moment to moment probably involved established leitmotifs for whichever characters happen to be on screen at the time and some kind of major new musical theme introduced every couple episodes.

This is the problem with snooty music nerds. It's never good enough for a piece of music to just be enjoyable.

I don't consider myself a snooty music nerd, and after seeing the GoT opening for the first time, I wondered if there was any way that they could have been more predictable with the score. Pseudo-classical music with a medieval flare. Whoopee. It was almost too obvious. Someone else mentioned Deadwood as a good opening. Well, the same thing happened there. It was too safe, too generic, too limited by the theme of the show.

/still mostly skip all opening sequences if they are longer than a few seconds

likefunbutnot:Mad_Radhu: Are we watching the same show? I love the opening score. It always gets me nicely pumped up for a new hour of killing and farking.

It's very paint-by-numbers generic quasi-classical music with uninspired orchestration and, except for the opening theme, nothing remotely memorable or interesting.

I was trying to think of a good way to point out the blandness of the GoT's score. I'm glad you did it for me. Paint-by-numbers generic quasi-classical? Yep, those are the words I was looking for.

Although I have to say, GoT using the opening sequence as an atlas to show the geographical relationships of all the places covered in that episode is pretty clever. Contrast with any Peter Jackson/Tolkein movie, each of which has to include a scene of characters looking at a map and pointing stuff out.

SwingAwayMarell:The first season of American Horror Story had a good opening that fit the creepy mood well.Can't speak to the second season since I've been told by various sources that it is dogs hit & should be avoided.

second season's credits are creepy still. Also, your various sources are wrong and should feel ashamed. I thought this season took a few episodes to really get going (the first episode throws way too much at once to really work), but I felt the same about the first season until about midway through.

NO. Words that vaguely describe the concept of your show fading in and out on the screen is a lazy opening sequence. Always has been. This season they changed the words and added the barbed wire, so it's a tad more creative. But it not now, nor has it ever been, "great" in any way, shape or form.

There are some good ones in that list, but "Dexter" and "Mad Men" are brilliant. Leaps and bounds better than the rest.

whizbangthedirtfarmer:Teufelaffe: likefunbutnot: Mad_Radhu: Are we watching the same show? I love the opening score. It always gets me nicely pumped up for a new hour of killing and farking.

It's very paint-by-numbers generic quasi-classical music with uninspired orchestration and, except for the opening theme, nothing remotely memorable or interesting. Compare GoT's scoring work to something like what McCreary did on the various Galactica properties, where the scoring from moment to moment probably involved established leitmotifs for whichever characters happen to be on screen at the time and some kind of major new musical theme introduced every couple episodes.

This is the problem with snooty music nerds. It's never good enough for a piece of music to just be enjoyable.

I don't consider myself a snooty music nerd, and after seeing the GoT opening for the first time, I wondered if there was any way that they could have been more predictable with the score. Pseudo-classical music with a medieval flare. Whoopee. It was almost too obvious. Someone else mentioned Deadwood as a good opening. Well, the same thing happened there. It was too safe, too generic, too limited by the theme of the show.

/still mostly skip all opening sequences if they are longer than a few seconds

If you talk about music being "predictable" and "obvious", you might be a snooty music nerd.

whizbangthedirtfarmer:Teufelaffe: likefunbutnot: Mad_Radhu: Are we watching the same show? I love the opening score. It always gets me nicely pumped up for a new hour of killing and farking.

It's very paint-by-numbers generic quasi-classical music with uninspired orchestration and, except for the opening theme, nothing remotely memorable or interesting. Compare GoT's scoring work to something like what McCreary did on the various Galactica properties, where the scoring from moment to moment probably involved established leitmotifs for whichever characters happen to be on screen at the time and some kind of major new musical theme introduced every couple episodes.

This is the problem with snooty music nerds. It's never good enough for a piece of music to just be enjoyable.

I don't consider myself a snooty music nerd, and after seeing the GoT opening for the first time, I wondered if there was any way that they could have been more predictable with the score. Pseudo-classical music with a medieval flare. Whoopee. It was almost too obvious. Someone else mentioned Deadwood as a good opening. Well, the same thing happened there. It was too safe, too generic, too limited by the theme of the show.

/still mostly skip all opening sequences if they are longer than a few seconds